I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.
The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.
The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.
Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.
I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.
I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
